Why is MSSQL called SQL Server or MS SQL Server?

Other query languages ​​also work with the server.

(Google / Yandex did not give answers)

Closed due to the fact that the question is too general a participant Nicolas Chabanovsky ♦ Apr 5 '18 at 13:04 .

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    why Google is called Google, and Yandex Yandex? - teran
  • Well, Microsoft's query language is T-SQL. It turns out MSSQL is an alternative naming of SQL Managment Studio? - Drovosek
  • The question is too general - LFC
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    "MS SQL Server" is the name of the product family, Managment studio is one of its components - the client environment for writing queries, etc. and "T-SQL" is the name of the so-called "dialect" - teran

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Here's what Google finds if you dig a little deeper than the surface search :

It was a product from "Ashton Tate" called dBase (dbase III + on DOS 3.3). If you’re looking Sybase SQL Server for UNIX and VMS . OS / 2 port of Sybase DataServer .

V1 of Ashton-Tate / Microsoft SQL Server was shipped in 1989. Originally it’s been a tool for the SQL Server. led to this falling by the wayside. Microsoft SQL Server become a Microsoft SQL Server ( Ashton-Tate/Microsoft SQL Server their offices).